What we do

Refugees and internally displaced people

Refugees and internally displaced people are those forced to flee their homes. There are 65.3 million people worldwide who have been forced from their homes and about half of them are children. This causes huge numbers of children to miss out on being able to go to school.

Projects

The aim of Theirworld's pilot projects in Turkey are to identify cost-effective interventions to get around the economic, cultural and language barriers that prevent Syrian refugees from getting an education.

Theirworld has been working in Lebanon to expand access to education through research, advocacy and campaigning, tackling the impact of the conflict in Syria which has left more than one million refugee children out of school.

Refugees and internally displaced children often do not have access to education or schools. This page defines the difference between refugees and internally displaced people, and describes several ways they may be supported.